Abram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦Apr 15

I received an email from Draft2Digital today that says it is no longer free to use; there will be a $20 activation fee for new accounts.

There is also an annual maintenance fee of $12 if your annual earnings (after Draft2Digital's commission) is less than $100.

This seems like a significant change that will probably push many authors back to Amazon.

I wonder what the disengagement process with Draft2Digital would be? It is entangled with at least a couple of dozen external accounts. If you close your Draft2Digital account, do they just keep all the future proceeds from your books on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and all the rest?

#Draft2Digital #writing #WritingCommunity

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@AbramKedge Apparently, I can't CW a reply in my client. Ignore the upcoming unsolicited reply / advice if you'd prefer.

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When you pull your books from D2D, they will become unavailable on any stores that had them specifically because D2D pushed them there. I'm not sure how funds would be handled between the time you remove them and the moment they're actually no longer available on the target stores.

Some authors move their books between D2D and direct because direct gets better payouts (for the things you can feasibly publish direct in).

Because D2D has payment thresholds, the gap time may not be particularly relevant. But, on the upside, you would then be free to republish the work directly without having D2D take a cut.

If you go that route and used DOCX or ODT files to publish to D2D initially, please do reach out to #WritingCommunity if you run into any issues trying to get them reformatted for Kindle or Kobo.

Apr 15 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadAbram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦Apr 15

@EveHasWords your advice is very much appreciated, thank you!

I'm all for getting information into the conversation, you never know who is going to see it and be helped by it.